The UK Defence Forum was created in 1996 to inform the defence, security and peace debate by enabling politicians, diplomats, senior members of the armed forces, public servants, defence professionals, academics and others with an interest in defence and security to access and examine information and views on the future challenges of Britain's defence, preparing and publishing research papers, including the Defence Viewpoints blog and Defence Red Box alert and twitter feed, and by facilitating study visits. It is a non-partisan and not-for-profit organisation which holds no views of its own. Its modus operandi might best be summarised as analysis, not advocacy, and it works under the Chatham House Rule.

"It is in fora such as this that we begin to prepare for the challenges that we will face"British Prime Minister Tony Blair's message to the UK Defence Forum to mark our 10th Anniversary.Read Rt Hon.Tony Blairs' message in full:
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3"Such high quality and thoroughly analysed papers" Kenya's High Commissioner, H E Joseph Muchemi "You are clearly doing great work with the Forum in engaging the interest of MPs and Peers in defence issues - not always an easy task!" Member of the House of Lords